W.H.: Turkey embassy bombing 'an act of terror'

2/1/13 12:06 PM EST

White House press secretary Jay Carney called Friday’s bombing outside the U.S. embassy in Turkey “by definition, an act of terror.”

“A suicide bombing on the perimeter of an embassy is by definition an act of terror,” Carney said. “However, we do not know at this point who is responsible or the motivations behind the attack. The attack itself is clearly an act of terror.”

The clear lack of ambiguity on the bombing at the Ankara embassy, which killed two people, follows a lack of clarity from the White House about the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.